Shain A. Mahaffey Neumeier[1] (born 1987) is an American autistic and nonbinary transgender attorney.[2] Neumeier advocates against coercive and forced treatment, including advocacy to close the Judge Rotenberg Center, an institution for people with developmental disabilities.[2][3] They are also an activist for autism rights, disability rights, and other associated causes.
Shain Neumeier | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1987 (age 36–37) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Bachelor of arts, Smith College, 2009 Juris doctor, Suffolk University Law School, 2012 |
| Occupation(s) | Attorney, activist |
| Known for | Disability, youth, and transgender rights activism |
| Partner | Lydia Brown |
| Father | Ed Neumeier |
| Awards | Leadership in Advocacy Award, Association of University Centers on Disabilities; Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award, Massachusetts Bar Association |
| Honors | Phi Delta Phi |
Personal life
editNeumeier has multiple disabilities including post-traumatic stress disorder, cleft lip and palate and ectodermal dysplasia.[4][5][6]
Education and career
editNeumeier studied at Smith College and Suffolk University Law School and later worked on youth rights policy issues for CAFETY.[7] As an attorney, they are in solo practice in Massachusetts. Their law practice represents people facing petitions for involuntary commitment.[8]
Activism and writing
editNeumeier advocates against coercive and forced treatment, and has called for the closure of the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), an institution which uses electric skin shock aversion therapy on people with developmental disabilities.[2][3] Neumeier also testified before the United Nations special rapporteur on torture about the JRC.[9]
In Marquis Who's Who featured Neumeier in their 2021 October Maker's List.[10]
Neumeier's essay Back into the Fires that Forged Us appeared in the 2018 book Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People (ISBN 9780463255704). Their essay addressed how disability activism has been criminalized in the United States.[11]
Selected publications
editReferences
edit- ^ POWELL, R. M. Disability Reproductive Justice. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, [s. l.], v. 170, n. 7, p. 1851–1903, 2022. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=163323797&site=eds-live&scope=site. Acesso em: 7 jun. 2023.
- ^ a b c "Activists Tell FDA Head: Ban Electric Shocks on People With Autism - Rewire.News". Rewire.News. Archived from the original on 2018-03-22. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
- ^ a b Adams, DL; Erevelles, Nirmala (2017-04-21). "Unexpected spaces of confinement: Aversive technologies, intellectual disability, and "bare life"". Punishment & Society. 19 (3): 348–365. doi:10.1177/1462474517705147. ISSN 1462-4745. S2CID 152056345.
- ^ Neumeier, Shain M. (2015-05-21). "About". Silence Breaking Sound. Archived from the original on 2023-04-11. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
- ^ Working with Autistic Transgender and Non-Binary People: Research, Practice and Experience. (2021). United Kingdom: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. p188 (contributor profile)
- ^ Wang, Alexandra (2018-09-23). "Shain Neumeier: Advice on Autism, Non-Binaries, and Transgenderism: Treatment, Laws, and Ethics". Retrieved 2024-10-14.
- ^ Autism NOW Center (June 2013). "An Autistic View of Employment: Advice, Essays, Stories, and More from Autistic Self Advocates" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-11-11. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
- ^ "For lawyers with autism, the work often pairs up with things they do well". ABA Journal. Archived from the original on 2020-06-12. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
- ^ daVanport, Sharon. "Stop the shocks: New toolkit builds on autistic community's anti-JRC work - Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN)". www.awnnetwork.org. Archived from the original on 2020-05-19. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
- ^ "In Honor of National Arts and Humanities Month, Marquis Who's Who Presents the Arts, Culture, Sports and Entertainment Moguls Maker's List". Cision PR Newswire. Marquis Who's Who. 5 Oct 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-11-29. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
- ^ Cipriani, Belo (20 Feb 2019). "Seeing in the Dark: New book raises profile of disability community". Bay Area Reporter. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
- ^ Editor's Notes. LGBT Law Notes, [s. l.], p. 55, 2021. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=qth&AN=151925849&site=eds-live&scope=site. Acesso em: 7 jun. 2023.
- ^ Blanck, P., Hyseni, F., & Wise, F. A. (2021). Diversity and inclusion in the american legal profession: Discrimination and bias reported by lawyers with disabilities and lawyers who identify as LGBTQ+. American Journal of Law and Medicine, 47(1), 9-61. doi:10.1017/amj.2021.1
External links
edit- Neumeier's personal blog
- Neumeier's law firm Archived 2018-05-22 at the Wayback Machine